In the present text I’m going to analyse the ode on a Grecian urn by John Keats.

Considering layout the present text is arranged into five stanzas of ten lines each. Each stanza is organised into two-part rhyme scheme: the first seven lines follow an ABABCDE scheme, while the last three lines have different rhyme scheme from stanza to stanza.

In the first stanza the poet introduces the theme of intangibility of art, which overcomes time (vv. 1-6) and which stimulates the poet's unsolved questions about what is depicted on the Greek amphora (vv. 7-10). In the first line “thou” refers to the urn, so the intelligent reader can understand the poem is a direct address between the poet and the personified urn.

In the second stanza the poet focuses on a scene depicting a group of musicians and a young man pursuing his beloved maiden. He conveys the idea that the power of the imagination surpasses our concrete sensations (vv. 11-12: "heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter").

In the third stanza the speaking voice addresses the urn, reflects on its eternity and on the message it conveys. In the fourth stanza the poet develops another picture on the urn. There scene represents a religious procession with an heifer to be sacrificed. In the last stanza the poet underlines that the perfection of the urn is silent and cold as eternity and "surpasses" contingent reality (vv.44-45 “Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought as doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!”).